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Rhod chats to some of those who knew Percy Sledge after the soul singer died at the age of 74. He was best known for his song 'When a man loves a woman'. Bass player, David Hood, performed and recorded with Percy Sledge for nearly fifty years and says he was totally overwhelmed when he found fame. He said, "He went from emptying bedpans to being a massive star overnight."

As violence escalates in Eastern Ukraine, Rhod speaks to two journalists working on the ground there.

And it's 150 years since John Wilkes Booth went into the President's box at Ford's Theatre in Washington and shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln. Rhod asks what would America have been like had Lincoln lived?